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  • The storyteller’s capital of Cascadia

    I conclude Chapter 19 Storytelling as Common Denominator of my Storyteller Uprising book with this: I highlighted those four words in the preceding paragraph – “entrepreneurship,” “innovation,” “community,”  “story” – as I see them as the core elements that all communicators must now draw upon if they wish to engage with trust and persuasion in…

  • Publish then Filter: my business model of perpetual release dates

    I love that turn of phrase from Clay Shirky’s still influential 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody.  Publish, then filter.  In the digital age, it means barriers to entry, costs, and content distribution platforms are all so accessible that the traditional mass media model of “filter, then publish” is no longer the norm. Net economics have…

  • Detroit Uprising: The Action Idea

    The short film above is the culmination of a project that my colleague Scott Macklin and I had pursued last summer, as an exercise in storytelling for this book, as well as for our Storytelling class earlier this year. Our working premise?  A conference for journalists seeking new business models, looks to Detroit’s incredible community…

  • Ready, set, go.

    Every three years or so, I take an abrupt left turn along the meandering donkey trail that is my superhighway to professional success.  From business to law student, to network news producer, to backpack TV journalist, to independent filmmaker to digital media strategist to academic.  A dean at Northwestern University once wondered aloud as to…